Marine reserves have increasingly been recognised for their potential to address the pervasive problem of unsustainable harvest of fisheries worldwide. Biologists advocate the benefits of increased spawning biomass, larger ...

The ease of collection and the increasing availability of large data stores has led to demands for improved methods for analyzing these data and deriving significant knowledge that maybe latent in these data stores. In ...

Many firms use derivative instruments as part of their strategic financial management. This study examines the motivations behind New Zealand firms' use of derivative instruments. Using the fair value and contract value ...

Identifying the determinants of health and ill-health in a nation has been the subject of an ongoing debate for several decades. Beginning with the work of Grossman (1972b), which was subsequently popularised by Wagstaff ...

It is widely recognised that the tourism experience involves pre-visit anticipation, travel to and from the site and post-visit reminiscence or recollection, yet to date few studies have explored the link between these ...

The year 2000 sees the world's largest sporting event, the Olympic Games, held in the Southern Hemisphere for only the second time. Proponents of the Olympics believe them to be a recipe for urban (re)development, escalating ...

Adventure tourism is defined and marketed as an experience of excitement, danger and risk. Contained in the understanding of risk is the potential of loss, injury and death. Are tourists paying for the potential to lose? ...

Role differentiation, integral to the development of occupational therapy, a professionalising occupation, is influenced by gender, and influences the identification of the profession's body of knowledge. This work is a ...

In 1991 the Employment Contracts Act came into force, bringing with it a significant change to New Zealand's industrial relations structure. It shaped a move towards an individual framework that was based on the freedom ...

The road marking industry Quality Management System (QMS) offers a good example of the manner in which an industry might collectively control quality assurance. The purchase of KC Contracting (KCC) by Fulton Hogan Southland ...